How to check if an option is selected?

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UPDATE

A more direct jQuery method to the option selected would be:

var selected_option = $('#mySelectBox option:selected');

Answering the question .is(':selected') is what you are looking for:

$('#mySelectBox option').each(function() {
    if($(this).is(':selected')) ...

The non jQuery (arguably best practice) way to do it would be:

$('#mySelectBox option').each(function() {
    if(this.selected) ...

Although, if you are just looking for the selected value try:

$('#mySelectBox').val()

If you are looking for the selected value’s text do:

$('#mySelectBox option').filter(':selected').text();

Check out: http://api.jquery.com/selected-selector/

Next time look for duplicate SO questions:

Get current selected option
or
Set selected option
or
How to get $(this) selected option in jQuery?
or
option[selected=true] doesn’t work

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